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Urine clinging to any surface is difficult to clean, let alone a concrete surface with many tiny holes. If your pet often uses the basement, garage, balcony or other cemented surface as a toilet, you will probably never feel like you can never get rid of the smell of urine, even with washing up. hundred times. This article will teach you how to completely remove the smell of urine with a little patience and some specialized cleaning solutions.

Steps

Method 1 of 3: Prepare the area before handling

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   Clean up sand or debris in the area to be deodorized. If there is something stuck on the floor, like an old carpet adhesive, scrape it off with a scraper. Cleaning the floor first is essential to keep the floor from getting dirty when using chemical cleaning agents and the dirt does not get into the tiny holes on the concrete surface.
   • Remove any furniture that could get entangled or damaged with strong chemicals that you are going to use, and apply tape to the baseboards.

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   Choose an enzyme cleaning solution. Urine contains uric acid crystals that are insoluble and adhere to the surface - in this case, a hard concrete surface with many tiny pores. Common detergents like soaps and water do not bind to uric acid, so no matter how many times you wash the crystals these crystals remain. The enzyme cleaner will break down the uric acid and will eventually knock them out of the concrete.
   • Even if you think the smell of your urine has dissipated after using regular cleaning products, just a little bit of moisture (even the humidity in the air) can make the smell of the urine reappear. Water causes uric acid to produce a gas with a strong odor.
   • Look for an enzyme cleaner specifically designed to deodorize your pet's urine (you can even buy one specifically made for dog or cat urine).

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   Use your sense of smell or UV light to detect urine. UV or ultraviolet lights sometimes detect old stains. This lamp can be helpful if you have washed the floor many times and no trace of urine can be seen. Turn off all the lights in the room and light the ultraviolet light about 0.3 to 1 meter from the floor. Urine stains, if present, will appear yellow, blue or green. Mark the spot of stains with chalk if you are going to be cleaning specific areas on the floor.
   • If the ultraviolet light doesn't work, you can also try smelling it to find out where to treat it. Pull the air out of the room and sniff around the room, noticing every part of that area.
   • While it is important to pay more attention to urine stains and perhaps treat more than once, you should clean the entire floor so that there is no invisible dirt under the ultraviolet light.
   • Treating the entire floor also keeps the floor from spotting - if the detergent makes the concrete look cleaner and lighter, the entire floor will look better if everything is clean and evenly colored.
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Method 2 of 3: Pretreatment

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   Buy a strong detergent like trinatri phosphate (TSP). The strong detergent will ensure that any ingredients in the urine (such as bacteria) are completely eliminated, and the enzyme cleaner can dissolve the uric crystals faster. Be sure to wear goggles and rubber gloves, as TSP can damage the skin.
   • Mix TSP in a bucket of very hot water at the rate of 1/2 cup TSP for every 4 liters of water.
   • If you don't want to use harsh chemicals like TSP, you can try a mixture of water and vinegar (2 parts vinegar mixed with 1 part water).

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   Pour the TSP mixture onto the floor and scrub it gently with a brush. Dispose of small pieces (about 1x1 m). It is important not to let the TSP dry out too quickly.This mixture should be wet on the concrete surface for at least 5 minutes. If the mixture dries out before the 5 minutes run out, pour more mixture or water over the area. The longer the floor is wet, the easier the mixture is to seep into the concrete.
   • You will probably notice a very strong smell of the urine during the pretreatment. This is the normal reaction of uric acid crystals and water.

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   Pour hot water over the treated area and use a wet / dry vacuum cleaner or an industrial vacuum cleaner to absorb all the liquid. This step will remove most of the used TSP solution. Then rinse the floor with hot water twice or more and let the floor dry naturally overnight.
   • Don't use a fan to speed up the cleaning process - your aim is still to soak the concrete floor and remove urine stains as much as possible.
   • If the vacuum cleaner smells of urine after suctioning the TSP mixture, you can spray it with an enzyme cleaner (dilute 1 part detergent with 30 parts water) into the vacuum cleaner while the machine is operating. Then turn off the machine and spray the mixture into the dirty water tank.
   • If you are using a carpet washing machine, you can pour water into the water tank in the machine instead of pouring water on the floor, and then run the rinse cycle.
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Method 3 of 3: Concrete treatment

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   Prepare an enzyme solution according to the instructions. Some detergents need to be mixed with the carpet cleaning solution, others just need to be mixed with water. Follow the instructions carefully, and remember not to add too much water and make the solution dilute.
   • Before using an enzyme cleaner, make sure the floor is completely dry after having pre-treated the day before.

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   Wet the entire area with an enzyme cleaner. You should dispose of small pieces about 1 x 1 m. Use enough solution so that the water stays on the floor for at least 10 minutes. Pour more solution if the floor begins to dry - again, it is essential that the solution soak into each layer and every small hole in the cement surface in order to decompose the uric crystals.
   • To make it easier to work, use a floor cleaner or a multi-purpose cleaner clean. Dirty cleaners cause remaining stains (such as dirt or mold) to get into the concrete, which is readily permeable and can cause other unpleasant odors.
   • Pay particular attention to areas where you have detected urine stains with ultraviolet light. You may need to use a brush to scrape the enzyme cleaners into those areas.
   • Dirtyest areas are likely to foam. Check the site, as you may have to re-treat it if the smell of the urine persists.
   • Repeat the process again until you have finished treating the entire floor.

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   Wait overnight for the floor to dry when it's finished cleaning. To give the enzyme solution more time to work, you can cover the floor with a plastic cloth. This will slow down the evaporation rate of the solution.
   • If the smell of urine persists, treat any dirt again with an enzyme cleaner.

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   Consider sweeping the sealing material onto the concrete surface once the smell of urine has been removed. This way you will be much easier to clean the concrete in the future because the small holes are sealed, and the floor surface looks better as well. advertisement

Advice

• Wood planks nailed to wooden floors or steps may require special attention, as urine often collects between the wood and concrete.
• Using a high-pressure cleaner to clean contaminated concrete can make it harder to deodorize, especially when water from a high-pressure cleaner is sprayed directly onto a concrete surface at an angle greater than 45 degrees. and / or narrow angle nozzles. This will actually make the smell deeper into the concrete, making it harder to reach and harder to deodorize.

What you need

• Scouring brush
• Wet / dry vacuum cleaner, industrial vacuum cleaner or carpet washer
• Enzyme cleaning solution
• Trinatri phosphate (TSP).
• Rubber gloves
• Goggles
• Country
• Floor cleaning bucket
• Floor cleaner (optional)